“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”. That’s Plato for you, real big on intertwining music and the soul, as if it were impossible to separate them. He’s not alone in this. The soul, life, music, connection has been made more than a few …
Happy Birthday Dad, Auntie and Hiroshima.
Pondering birthdays. My fathers birthday is August 9th, and his sister’s (my aunt’s) birthday is August 6th. On August 6th, 1945 the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb. We dropped it on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9th, the same year, we dropped the second Atomic bomb, the first plutonium …
August And Everything After
My summer term is ending soon. Finalizing the term, work, some life, a schedule that demands I go to bed before 1 AM, stymies the postings here, as well as the thought that goes into them. At times the tiny pecks hardly seem worth it, but I’m addicted to this …
Late Afternoon Brain Flatulence.
Financial Service Industry is a misnomer. When you’re making billions off money that doesn’t belong to you it’s no longer a financial service, it’s financial opportunism….so banking industry shut up. Same with health insurance. When you are controlling the market, getting karats and giving carrots in return, you are not …
Poetaster Pickles Peppers, Feeds Birds, and Pays The Price For Barely Speeding
In case your dying to know. This weekend I: Received a “GOTCHA” speeding on camera ticket in the mail. MoCo makes a killing on these. I’m usually good at avoiding them in MoCo, and along with them the cameras in the District — most of which are red light cameras …
Phelps Flies
I own Michael Phelps, so I’ve got to post this, but please check out the Old School Friday Post preceding this. *Insert picture of Phelps, bare chested, wearing tiny Speedo, here* Michael Phelps won the 100 Fly at the World Championships in Rome. He also set a new world record. …
